Come in and get your orange vocab sheet

Come in and get your orange vocab sheet. Begin practicing your stanza with a partner.

Prepositions You should have titled pg. 7 in your interactive notebook “Prepositions” and glued down the song lyrics. You also took a few notes. Next, title pg. 8 “Prepositions” as well, and you should write these three sentences. Then, highlight the prepositions you find in these sentences. The pizza in the oven is mine. The girl by the door is my sister. The runners raced around the track. Is this what you wrote down? The pizza in the oven is mine. The girl by the door is my sister. The runners raced around the track.

Prepositions A preposition is a part of speech that shows a relationship between two things. • Location (on, under, in) • Timing (before, after, during) • Direction (from, toward, to)

Prepositions The mouse is on the table. Two things: mouse + table Relationship: one is on the other On is a preposition!

Prepositions The mouse is under the table. Two things: mouse + table Relationship: one is under the other Under is a preposition!

Prepositional Phrases in the oven by the door around the track These are prepositional phrases. Prepositional phrases start with a preposition and end with the object of a preposition.

Object of a Preposition The object of a preposition • must be a noun or a pronoun • always comes at the end of a prepositional phrase Example: The cookies are in the oven. Oven is a noun that ends the prepositional phrase. Oven is the object of the preposition.

Now, time to play “Simon Says”… s n o i t c u r t s n i • Follow the as given. For r u o y d n u o r a “ example, desk”. e v o m d l u o • You w. k s e d r u o y d aroun • When yo u say the object of th e preposition , you are to slap the obj ect with the palm of you r hand.

Preposition Song about above across after along among around at before beside between against within without beneath through (To the tune of Yankee Doodle Dandy) during under in into over of off to toward up on near for from except by with behind below down.

Put it all together… Indicate the prepositional phrases in these sentences. 1. After school, the boys played a game of baseball at the park. 2. We hid our canoe in the bushes and set up camp by the river. 3. Candy signed her name on the line and passed the paper across the table. 4. Without any warning, the dog dashed to the door and barked loudly. 5. The storm caused the tree in our front yard to fall against the house.

Now, time to play “Hide and Seek”…. r e n t r a p a d • Fin s i t a h t t c e j b • Pick an o r u o y f o e z i s about the hand. n i o g l l i w o h • Decide w. t s r i f y a w l l a the h • Partner w ill hide object in th e classroom. • You can only use preposition s to give clues as to how close they are.